Mitch left with the arrival of winter, just as if his heart capable of melting the ice in Ed's had ended by giving way to the cold. At least this is how he thought since he felt betrayed and didn't understand why.
At some point he thought they could stay together forever, enjoy life until they were very old and had white hair, but all that time he was wrong. While he thought about a future with Mitch, this other one looked for the way to stand out in the world without caring if it was with Ed or without him.
It was so cruel ...
It all started with an arrival as well, Mitch's double arrival and fall. He didn't usually see faces like Mitch's, so he instantly noticed him. He had very light brown hair, almost blonde and trimmed in a mullet, his eyes were brown. However, once you got close enough you could see that a halo trapped between green and blue surrounded them. He wore a hoop he denied on his lower lip, right in the center.
His features were Caucasian, that also caught his attention.
He was looking at the streets as if trying to position himself or was lost, so Ed felt the need to help him.
"Are you lost?"
Slowly the stranger turned his eyes to Ed, and his thin eyebrows arched. Ed's appearance was not far behind, his hair was dark like a moonless night contrasting with his literally gray eyes wrapped in black, and he was mixed. So his eyes were slanted, but at the same time they implied that he was not 100% Japanese.
His hands were buried in the pockets of his pants, his head cocked to the lost youngster. He smirked.
"I said that if you are lost, didn't you understand me?" repeated this time in English.
"I understood you the first time, thanks, now I will continue walking"
After answering him with an annoyed air, he surrounded Ed's body and continued walking. Ed chuckled and clicked his tongue thinking that boy was entertaining. He knew he was partly to blame, for instead of waiting for an answer he had practically teased him in his face. But he couldn't avoid doing it when he liked it so much, it was something that he was born with.
"Walking? You mean walking around ” (sorry this in spanish had more sense)
The stranger's footsteps stopped abruptly, he turned to reply, but Ed began to laugh and not understand why his laughter hit him. After a few seconds he noticed the black guitar case on his back, and pointed at it with his index finger.
"Do you play?"
"Not. I will tell you a secret "he looked to the sides making sure that there was no one around them, and put a hand against his mouth as if he was really telling one" I have come to Japan traveling the ocean on this guitar ... the envious will say that is a lie"
That joke was enough for Ed's heart to open up to him a little. Interested in learning more about him, he decided that a good way to start was knowing his name.
"What is your name?"
"Mitch at your service" stretched out his thin, pale hand like a princess.
When Ed took her, Mitch's eyes widened in surprise, shocked by his daring, he left his hand still even when Ed had now put his lips on it.
"Michi-chan then"
He took care to brush every inch of the back of Mitch's hand with his lips, tickling him with every light touch until a small smile danced in them.
Mitch shook his hand and retrieved it, frowning.
"No Michi-chan, you ..."
"Ed, can you call me that"
"Eddie-kun"
Ed burst out laughing at Mitch's attempted imitation.
"Are you sure you're older than me?"
"Of course"
"Years?"
"91"
With everything he had said to him in Japanese, he did not expect such a beginner's mistake, he caught him so suddenly that the laugh now emitted by Ed made little of the previous one. It got to a point where he needed to bend in half and grab his abdomen.
He wiped the tears away with his index finger and repeated Mitch's words in English.
"Ninety-one?"
"How annoying"
Mitch continued walking, his black boots contrasting with the dry red and orange leaves on the ground, and with each footstep they made a dry sound as they broke under his shoes. Ed walked behind this tread where Mitch had stepped on.
"Do you learn to say that and not 19? Wow, I don't know what to think Mitch San ”
Again Mitch stopped dead, Ed followed him a few inches from him, if they only got a little closer he was sure he could touch the tip of his nose.
He felt a stab in his heart, felt the need to shake his hands in smooth fists to endure the nervousness that was taking over him.
"So you admit you're younger than me?"
At that moment Mitch turned on his heels to fulfill Ed's fantasies. A radiant smile crossed his pretty face, this was replaced by the half-open mouth, and his cheeks reddened instantly when he realized the sudden closeness between them. .
Ed was sure they had just met there, on September 21st in Hokkaido and they had only been miserable minutes seeing and knowing their names, so why did he feel that he could free his whole being with him?
As if he could be himself with this Mitch.
The truth is that it was also the first time that he was like this with someone, he never had the intention of helping anyone he saw on the street lost, or to follow the jokes of a stranger or annoy him. But instead that boy was young like him, and very handsome.
He blinked repeatedly as he fell into his own thoughts. Did he really seem attractive to him? Of course there were men more handsome than him, but ... it was as if he was seeing him in a different way than someone who seemed attractive to him and now.
He swallowed hard, thinking that he would recover from the sudden dryness in his throat, but all he did was make this sensation multiply and get worse.
He and Mitch cleared their throat at the same time and stepped back.
"We live in the same city now, we will see each other again"
"Ya ... see you"
Then each one went his way with the strong need to meet again as soon as possible.
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Mmm if someone is reading this)? I should say that English isn't my first language and I have no idea of how I'm doing this without dying in the attempt xdxd Sorry.
If u see weird mistakes it would be a pleasure to having them corrected in the comments :')
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